Wheel-painting apparatus



PATENTED JAN. 12, 1904,

APPLICATION FILED APR. 22. 1903.

W B LONG WHEEL PAINTING APPARATUS.

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Patented January 12, 1904.

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WALTER B. LONG, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WHEEL-PAINTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION OFming' part Of Letters Patent NO. 749,622, dated January 12, 1904.

l Application filed April 22, 1903- Qerial No. 153,798. (No model. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER B. Lone, a citizen of the United States, residing in Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVheel-Painting Apparatus, of

' which the following is a full, clear, and exact apparatus.

description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

. My'invention relates to an apparatus for use in painting vehicle-Wheels, the parts being so arranged that the Wheel may be first supported and revolved in a suitable housing containing paint, then elevated in the housing, and

revolved to remove the surplus paint.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims. I

Figure I is a perspective front view of my Fig-His a vertical section taken on line II II, Fig. I, and showing the wheel supporting and revolving mechanism in elevation.- Fig. III is a detail section illustrating the stub-shaft on which the wheel is supported in the apparatus. Fig. IV is a view of a wheel-retaining screw of the stub-shaft. Fig. V is a cross-section taken on line V V, Fig. III.

1 designates a housing at the bottom of which is a paint-well 2. The housing isprovided with an opening 3 at its front and has a rear wall 4, that contains a vertical slot 5. (See Fig. II.) Above the opening '3 at the front of the housing is a shield 6.

7 designates a vertically-movable bar arranged to operate in thehousingl and extending vertically through the top of said housing to receive the connection of means by which the bar is raised or lowcred to shift the position of its lower end in the housing for the purpose hereinafter made clear. The means I have shown for moving the bar 7 comprises'a double-armed lever 8, that is pivoted at 9 to a post 10,. and the inner arm of which is provided with a slot 11, that receives astud 1'2, seated in the bar? to operate in said slot.

13 is a pull-cord connected to the outer arm of the lever 8 and y; which said lev r is moved to lift, the bar By the construction described the bar 7 may be manually lifted; but I donot limit myself to this particular construction, as it is obvious that the bar may be connected to power mechanism for its actuation.

l4 designates a spindle journaled in the lower end of the bar 7 and adapted to receive the vehicle-wheel, as indicated by A, Figs. 11

and III. to be painted. vided with an interior end.

16 is a retaining-screw having series of teeth" 1 7 of a pitch corresponding to that of the screwthread 15, which receives the teeth when the retaining-screw is turned into the spindle 14. 18 is the head of the retaining-screw, and 19 is an annular rim surrounding said screw adjacent to its head. Between the rim 19 and the teeth 17 are fins 20. 21 is a gasket on the spindle 14, resting against an annular rim 14 on the rear part of The'spindle 14 is pro V screw-thread 15 and. slots 15, that lead inwardly from its outer the spindle and adapted to bear against the inner end of the hub of the mounted on said spindle.

22 is a gasket that is fitted to the retainingscrew 16 and held from rotation thereon by the fins 20 while presented to the outer end of the wheel-hub between said end of the hub and the rim 19 of the retaining-screw.

wheel A when The gaskets 21 and 22 are intended to ex; clude the ingress of paint into the interior of the hub of the wheel A while it is being coated with paint contained in the well 2 of the housing 1, as illustrated in Fig. II.

mounted on the spindle 14, as seen in Figs. II.

and 11-1, and held thereon by the retainingscrew 16 to be lowered into the paintwell 2. The wheel is lowered into. the paint-well on the lowering of the vertically-movable bar 7.

and while in the paint is rotated to coatit by means that will now be describe 23 designates a driven shaft that is mounted in bearingarms 7, carried by the bar 7 and the lowermost of which operates through the slot 5 in the housing 1. The driven shaft 23 is geared/to the spindle 14 by a beveled pin-- ion 24 on said shaft, that meshes witha beveled pinion 25, fixed to the spindle.

. 5 In the process of painting a wheel it is 26 is a drive-shaft to which power is communicated from a beveled pinion 27 suitably operated and geared to a beveled pinion 28, fixed to said drive-shaft. g

29 is a beveled pinion on the drive-shaft 26, that meshes with a beveled pinion 30, fixed to the driven shaft 23. When thewheel A has been lowered into the paint-well 2, the beveled pinion 30 is in-engagement with the beveled pinion 29, and the drive-shaft 26 being in motion rotation is imparted to the driven shaft 23 through the medium of said pinions and transmitted to the beveled pinions 24: and to rotate the spindle 14 and turn the wheel A in the paint, so that it will be thoroughly coated. The bar 7 is then lifted to raise'the wheel A out of the paint into'the position seen in dotted lines, Fig. II, carrying thedriven shaft 23 therewith: On the upward ment of the driven shaft 23 the beveled. pinion is moved out of engagementwith the pinion 29', and the beveled pinion31, fixed to the driven shaft above the pinion. 30, is carried to a beveled pinion 32, fixed to the upper-end of the drive-shaft 26. As soon as the pinion 31 engages with the pinion 32 renewed rota- .tion of the driven shaft 23 is furnished and rotation is again imparted to the spindle 14=to turn the wheel A in its elevated position and throw therefrom the surplus paint which it carried when elevated from the paint-well.

. During the rotation ofthe wheel in'its elevated position the paint is prevented from being thrown out of the housing 1 by the shield6 at the front of the housing, and the paint, therefore, on being thrown against the housing-walls and said shield must of necessity flow therefrom back to the paint-well 2.

I claim as my inx1ention 1. In a wheel-painting*apparatus, the combination of a housing, paint-well at the bot tom of said housing, a wheel-receiving spindle, means for supporting said spindle, means for lowering and raising said spindle-supporting'ineans, and means for imparting rotation to said spindle when in its lowered and elevated positions, substantially asset forth.

2. In a wheel-painting; apparatus, the combination of a housing, a paint-well atthe bottom of said housing, a bar vertically movable insaid housing, means forlowering and raising said bar, a wheel-receiving spindle journaled in said bar, a driven shaft geared to said spindle, and carried by said vertically-movable bar, a drive-shaft and gearing fixed to lowered-and elevated positions, substantially as set forth.

3. In a-wheel-painting apparatus, .the com bination of'a support, a'wheel-receiving spindle mounted in said support, and provided with an interior screw-thread, agasket located on the rear portion of said spindle, a retaining-screw for-insertion into said spindle, and a gasket carried by said retaining-screw, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a Wheel-painting apparatus, the combination of a support, a wheel-receiving spindle mounted in said support and provided with an interior screw-thread, a gasketon the rear portion of said spindle, a retaining-screw for insertion into said spindle, a rim carried by said screw, fins extending longitudinally of said screw, and a' gasket .positioned on said screw. at the location of said fins and rim, substantially as set forth. WALTER B. LONG.

In presence of v S. SHANKWEILER R. O. ACKER.

said drive-shaftand driven shaft to be en- I gaged when said vertically-movable bar is in 

